Reagan on the American Classroom

American classrooms have changed in a lot of ways from those instituted for the training of students in the Word of God. Yes, at the onset of the educational system in this country, the purpose of educating young people was to nurture them in the teachings of the Bible. In fact, the Bible was an early textbook.

Now they have computers and access to all the information age can afford to them, but they are lacking in one essential thing--the opportunity to read and to know the truth that is eternal as it is presented in God's Holy Book, the Bible.

When the Holy Writ was at the core of education, the American educational system surpassed all others globally. A U.S. education was highly esteemed worldwide. Today, it scrapes for a place in the heap.

A superintendent of schools was once told by a teacher in his employ that to regain its place of superiority among the educational systems of the world, the U.S. program needed to do two things.
First, it had to implement into itself all the advantages afforded to it by modern technology, and second, it needed to return to the tried and true practices that were utilized in the days of America's great success.

Those two things are as true today as they were the day they were spoken...and one of the tried and true practices utilized in the days of America's great success was to come before the Lord each school morning by reading the Bible and praying the Lord's Prayer.

Are we willing to allow children to talk to God in our schools again? To let them do so just might be what is needed to restore America to a lofty position among the school systems of the world. It also might be what is needed to make them safe places again.